Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...official unit of the American Ambulance Field Service, composed of members and graduates of the University, will leave New York on June 2. This unit will be known as the Harvard unit, and will keep its identify during the six months' period it is in service at the front...
...direct result of the informal conferences of the French Commission with the War Department, the American Government has determined to take over in easy instalments a large part of the motor ambulance and transport service of the French army, thus relieving many hundred French and at the same time training a large and indispensable corps of men for service with the American army when it arrives at the front. About one hundred sections of 36 men each--a total of 3,600 men--are to be sent to France as soon as they can be trained, equipped and transported...
...earnest, though unofficial desire of the War Department that the men who will compose these American ambulance units shall be of the highest class mentally and morally, and it is hoped that the leading colleges will contribute entire units which may be kept together and perhaps be given distinctive insignia. Fourteen hundred men have been asked for at once. All of the larger Eastern colleges save Harvard are already actively co-operating with the undertaking, and it appears that the desired number will be rapidly recruited. There yet remains, however, the possibility of forming a Harvard unit which will...
...night, outlines briefly the work of the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps for the remainder of its three months' period of training, which will close on or about August 23. In addition to much work of a practical and theoretical nature which will be conducted under the French and American officers, the entire regiment will go on a long hike of 250 miles during the month from July 16 to August 15. Although as yet no definite announcement as to the direction of this hike has been made, it is understood that it will be to the north into Maine...
Thirty members of the University are scheduled to sail from New York today for France, to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will go to Bordeaux on the steamer Chicago of the French Line, the same ship that carried the contingent from the University last February. The sailing of the boat has been held over since last Saturday. Beside the men from the University, the Chicago will take two units from the University of California, one from the University of Illinois, one from the Washington University of St. Louis, and 80 other men from colleges and universities...